On Saturday, June 11, 2011–the Vigil of Pentecost–the St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Use Society of Washington, DC and Northern Virginia (STCS), will hold an Anglican Use Mass to mark the first anniversary of their founding. The location is St. Anselm's Abbey in Washington, DC, where the STCS has been holding regular Evening Prayer services according to the Book of Divine Worship (BDW) one Saturday a month since September of 2010.
The Society is also pleased to announce the advent of regular services in Northern Virginia. In addition to regular Evening Prayer at St. Anselm’s, on Sunday, June 26–the Feast of Corpus Christi, they will hold a service of Evensong and Benediction according to the BDW at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Annandale, VA.
The celebrant for the June 11 Mass will be Fr. Eric Bergman, Chaplain of the St. Thomas More Society in Scranton, PA, who also celebrated the Society's first official Mass on March 19, 2011. Fr. Bergman will speak at a reception after the Mass on the practical aspects of forming an Anglican Use parish.
More information is available on the website of the STCS or the Seward’s Folly blog. Anyone living in the Washington area or who plans to be there on either of those dates is most welcome to join them.
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Fr. Christopher G. Phillips is the pastor of Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he has served for the past twenty-seven years. He is the founding pastor of the first Anglican Use parish, erected in 1983 under the terms of the Pastoral Provision. Fr. Phillips was ordained as an Anglican for the Diocese of Bristol, England, in 1975. After serving as Curate for three years at St. Stephen Southmead, he returned to the United States and served in two Episcopal parishes in the Diocese of Rhode Island. In 1981 he left the Episcopal Church and moved with his family to Texas, where he was subsequently ordained as a Catholic priest in 1983. Fr. Phillips and his wife, JoAnn, have been married for forty years. They have five children, all grown and married, and two grandchildren. 
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